imploringly, laying  . `Im not cross, tom - it  bear guessing. Please, be good to me.

    toms arm sloo yourself. I  go offee and gingerbread o purpose to save t . And  c t it be fun?

    Maggies anso toms neck and   speaking, wer a pause,

    `asnt I a good broto buy you a line all to yourself? You kno  it, if  liked.

    `Yes, very, very good... I do love you, tom.

    tom  t, and  the hooks one by one, before he spoke again.

    `And t me, because I  give in about toffee.

    `O dear, I  it  you?

    ` me? no, said tom, putting up taking out a large pocket-knife, and slo blade, atively as . then he added,

    `I gave Spouncer a black eye, I knos ing to leat going to go hered me.

    `O om - I t me, I t  you, tom?

    ` you, you silly the shows.

    `No: but if ries, I mean, in Africa,  people t you in t.

    `ell, I s a gun and s him.

    `But if you  got a gun -  t as  get away from  som?

    tom paused, and at last turned aemptuously, saying, `But t coming. s talking?

    `But I like to fancy   you om.

    `O dont bots.

    Maggies  began to flutter  tell trut once, but ser tom in trembling silence as  out, tell o soften at once oms anger of all t e a different anger from her own.

    `tom, simidly, w of doors, `s?

    `tly.

    `I t a great deal more t in my steel purse upstairs. Ill ask moto give it you.

    ` for? said tom. `I dont  your money, you silly t a great deal more money tmas boxes, because I